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(THIS EVENING.) ton in favour of the Bill. L , „ _. SECOi l k D EDITH) N. SUN OFFICE, S6ven o' Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair this evening at four o'clock. MIDLAND RAILWAY BILL. Mr. VERNON SMITH, in pursuance of his notice, moved that the Members for Northamptonshire, and for the borough of Stamford, be added to the Committee on the Midland Railway Bill. He thought it necessar) to have upon the Committee gentlemen who were locally interested, and had a - local knowledge of the country through which the Railroad pissed. Mr. E. DENNlSON'opposed the motion. Sir G. STRICKL AND thought any motion to increase the numbers of the Committee extr emel y objectionable, and he should, therefore, feel it his duty to oppose it. If the prin ciple were once admitted, they should have frequent motions of a similar character. Mr. C ART WRIG HT supported the motion. Mr. FINCH was of opinion that investigation should take place, and if on inquiry it should be found to benefit the people of England, why let all private interests give way. Mr. B ARC LAY thought the proposition decidedly objec tionable ; and that the House should adhere to the rule laid down at the commencement of its sittings for the constitution of these private Committees. If the course now proposed were adopted, it would render these Committees nothing but parti zan Committees. Mr. P. THOMPSON had on a former occasion called the attention of the House at considerable length to the reso lutions and recommendations of the Committee, of which he had the honour to be chairman. They had been most anxious to effect whatever improvements were possible in that respect, but they found themselves comp e lled in consequence of the difficulties that would cccur to recommend that the list,Com- mittces, as settled at present, should be the list Committees to which these railway Bills should be referred. It appeared to him that if the proposition of his Hon. Friend were acceded to, it would open the door to the admission of further innovations, Hear,)—and the House would be called on to act upon other special circumstanccs,and attend to the claims of every other party opposing a Railway Bill. It was for the House to say whe ther it would adhere to the recommendation of that Commit tee to confine these List Committees to the members who belogged to them, and the members of the counties through which the railways passed.—( Hear.) On these grounds he would recommend his Hon. Friend to withdraw his proposi tion ; for even upon his own showing it would be premature ; and the necessary result would be that counsel should be heard at great length, and in that manner serious impedi ments would be thrown in the way of those Railway Bills which were actually before the House. Mr. C. ROSS made a few observations, as we understood against the proposition. Mr. V. SMITH said he and his Hon. Friend had not at tended the Committee as Members for Northampton, but as Members appointed by the House. After what bad passed, he would, with the permission of the House, withdraw his motion. The SPEAKER thought that the best opporttinity of calling the attention of the House to a point of practice. He had read over thirteen petitions that morning, which had been presented on the subject of the competing lines to Brighton —he found that all of them prayed that one of the Bills might not pass—that the other might be passed, and that the parties who petitioned might be heard by Counsel. That prayer was against the principle of the Bill, and according to the practice of the House they ought to lay on the table. It was for the House to decide whether, as they had imposed new duties upon the Committee, they would not make a special case of these Bills, and referthe petitions to them under some limitations. Mr. P. THOMSON did not think there could * he any ob jection to these petitions being referred to the Committee. The SPEAKER suggested that they should be referred to the Committee, upon the understanding that no counsel should be heard by them.—( Hear, hear.) Lord G. SOMERSET hoped the Committee would look narrowly, to see whether the petitions were bona fide or not. Many were presented out of very bad motives. Mr. BRUEN presented a petition from Carlow, complain ing that the Standing Orders of the House had not been com plied with n the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill. Mr. LEADER presented two petitions in favour of Mr. Buckingham's claims. POULTER presented a petition from a gentleman named Merrivale against the Exeter and Bristol Railway Bill.— Referred to the Committee on the Bill. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY BILL, Mr. HODGES presented four petitions in favour of 'the South Eastern Railway 13i11: after which, tiu. Hon. Member moved the second reading of the Bill. S:veral Members suggested the Propriety of receiving peti tions for and ag4inst the Bill previous to moving the second reading of the Bill. Sir JOE - IN RAE RE ID presented a petition from Ashbur• Sir E. KNATCLIBUULL presented a petition from the owners and occupiers of lard in Gravesend, Rochester, and Ashford, against the Bill. Mr. BE Ft.N AL presented petitions from Chatham, praying that time might be given to consider of the- best mode of forming - a Railway from London to Dover. Sir W. GEARY presented a petition from Tunbridge Wells against the Bill. Mr. CURTEIS presented petitions from Rye and Folke stone against the Bill. Mr. HODGES then moved the second reading of the Bill. Mr: BE RNA L said be would not take so strong a step as to oppose the second reading of the Bill, but he said he should give his decided opposition to every other stage of the Sir E. ENATCLIBULL would not oppose the second reading of the Bill ; but he came to this conclusion on very different grounds from those stated by the lion. Member for Rochester. He (Sir E. Kliatclibull)' did not mean to go lat.) Committee with a predetermination either to oppose or support the Bill.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He would give the matter a full and fair consideration, and would set accordingly, and this, he thought, was the way in which he would most satisfactorily discharge his duty. When they were aware that twenty-eight millions of money were already cra b irked in railroad speculations, and that .there wore from fifty to sixty railroad plans before the House, he could not but come to the conclusion that a great proportion of these schemes must be founded on very insufficient grounds.—( Hear, hear.) He could not at present say whether. this measure was orre of them, but he hoped such was not the case. Mr. HODGE S, as the second reading of the Bill was not opposed, would only say, that when the Bill was placed in his hands he stipulated with the parties that he should undertz. , ke the conduct of the Bill upon principles of strict impartiality. He was no partizan, and he undertook the management of the Bill merely because it was connected with the county which he had the honour to represent. - The Bill was then . read a second time. MIDLAND COUNTIES' RAILWAY BILL. Mr. FRENCH and Mr. HALFORD presented petitions against this Bill, but from the extraordinary confusionin the House, we were unable to hear the names of the places from whence the petitions came. DUBLIN HARBOUR BILL. Mr. C. EVANS brought up the Report of the Committee on this Bill. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. Lord G. LENNOX moved that the Committee nn this Bill might have power to send for persons, papers, and records, to be examined. The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Member'should state some reason for his motion. Lord G. LENNOX said he believed the object was to com pel certain persons to give evidence who refused to do so. Mr. CURTE IS did not know that this was a power which the House ought to give to a Committee on a Railway Bill. The question was then put, and agreed to. Mr. HARDY presented two petitions, but the noise in the body of the House was so great that we could not understand upon what subject. Several HoN. MEMBERS presented petitions, and brought up reports on private bills, but from the cause before stated, their prayer could not be ascertained in the gallery. An HeN. MEMBER having brought up a Report, Mr. HAWES asked the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade, if the Bill which authorised certain Incorpo rations was likely to obtain the support of his Majesty's Go vernment? Mr. P THOMSON said he understood the Bill had un dergone some alterations in the Committee. He had not yet seen it, and when he ascertained their nature, he would be able to say what course Government would pursue. Mr. RICHARDS thought a fairer case was never laid before Government for allowing parties to be incorporated under the Bill. GREAT WESTERN UNION RAILWAY. Mr. HALE presented a petition from a Gentleman in the County of Gloucester, against this Bill, and praying to be heard by Counsel against it. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition in favour of the Manchester and Stockton Railway. Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition against the Glou cester Railway. Mr. H. HUGHES presented a petition signed by 180 aensed victuallers of Oiforu against the extra 50 per cent. on spirit licenses. Mr. AG LIONBY presented a petition from South Shields ro the same effeet. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from Goring and Preston in Sussex, against an increase of duty on spirits. Mr. CHARLES WOOD brought up certain pape rs f rom the Treasury, pursuant to order. SHERIFFS (IRELAND.) Colonel PERCIVAL wished to ask the Secretary for Ireland when the returns respecting the appointment of Sheriffs, for which he had moved about three weeks ago, would be laid en the table of the House ? Lord MORPETH said the Returns had not yet arrived from Ireland ; when they did they should be immediately pre sented. CATHOLIC NUNNERIES. Colonel PERCEVAL had a question to ask the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Home department, when the re turns which had been ordered during the last Session and on the first day of the present, and which were required by the Act of 1829, relating to the establishment of Catholic Nun neries in Ireland, and of other institutions of that nature would be presented. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Reports were not yet made up, but they should be presented with as little delay as pos sible. Colonel PE RCEVAL hoped there would be no delay, as a motion on the subject only stood over for these returns. POST OFFICE. - • . . Colonel PE RC EVA L seeing the Right Hon. the Member for Tauntan in his place, wisher to obtain on behalf of a friend of his, who was unable to come down to the House, some in formation respecting the time when the Report of the Post- Office Commissioners would be laid on the table. Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was necessary before these returns could be made up to obtain information from the Se cretary of the Post-office, who was at present in France. As soon as he returned the papers would, without delay, be laid on the table. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. G. F. YOUNG rose under feelings - of great pain to bring forward the present question, but in doing so he was not influenced by any party or personal motives. The Hon. Mere proceeded to detail circumstances connected with the appoint ment of the committee, when he was called to order by Mr. E WART, who protested against the course which the Honourable Member (Mr. G. F. Young) was pursuing, he should conform himself to the evidence, and not make any animadversions on the composition of the Committee. Mr. YOUNG went on to complain that the evidence given by Mr. Warburton before the Select Committee on the timber duties ,vas not the same in the printed Report as that delivered by the Hon. Member ; that the evidence had been corrected by the Hon. Member himself, and out of 5,000 words which appeared in the short-hand writer's notes, 3,338 were struck out, leaving 1,662 of the original,,and 6,940 addi tional words were added that were never delivered by him before the Committee. The Hon. Membet then commented on the altered evidence. He had examined the records of the House, and he was not able to find a parallel case. (LEFT SPEAKING.); HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat a few minutes after 5 o'clock COURT OF PROBATE. The Earl of RIPON presented two petitions against the Ecclesiastical Bill from Chichester. The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition to the same effect from Chester, and The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from a place we did not hear, to the same effect. The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented a petition, the facts of which he was entirely unacquainted with, from W. Gaythorn Butt, who had been tried and found guilty of some offence in the Court of King's Bench, and praying for a revision of his sentence. BANKRUPTCY LAWS. The Bishop of EXETER presented a p2tition from Chester, complaining of certain grievances under the Bank ruptcy Laws. DISSENTERS' GRIEVANCES. Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from the Dissenters of Houghton-le-Shields, praying for a redress of Dissenters' grievanees. PUBLIC EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The Bishop of EXETER moved for a copy of the Com mission under which Commissioners had been appointed to enquire into public education in Ireland.—Ordered. The Earl of RODEN presented a petition from St. Cle ment Danes, in the county of Middlesex, against Sunday trading. The Earl of WINCHILSEA moved for copies of any let ters that had passed between his Majesty's Government and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, relative to the appointment of Mr. Lee, High Sheriff of Wexford. SLAVE COMPENSATION AMENDMENT BILL. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that the House do resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House on the Slave Compensation Amendment Bill. The Bill went through the Committee. Lord LYNDHURST presented petitions from Essex and other places, relating to agricultural distress; also a petition from the debtors confined in the gaols of London and Mid dlesex, praying that the Bill introduced last Session might pass into a law ; also several petitions from places in North ampton and Oxford, against the Probate clause of the Eccle siastical Courts Bill. CHURCH REFORM. York, and it was further recommended that until the existing Chapters were reduced, no election should take place. It was also recommended that the residence of the Dean should be for nine months, and that of the Canons for three months. —( Hear, hear.) He wiseed also to call their Lordship's attention to a further recommendation, viz., that these bene fices should be limited according to the wants of the popula tion ; but this was reserved for further consideration. It was impossible at once to lay down any general rule upon the subject; they must, necessarily, be guided in their considerations by a reference to local circumstances. Their Lordships were aware of the course taken by the late Administration with respect to a prebendal stall of Westminster—it was annexed to the parish Church of St. Margaret—and as there was one vacant at pre sent the same course would be taken with respect to it. It was intended to annex it to a parish in a part of the City, in which they were now placed, and he could state that he had received the recommendation of his Majesty to apply it in this way, and he was sure that his Majesty was as anxious as any man to carry into effect a salutary and useful reformation in the Church.—( Hear, hear, hear. ) There was another circumstance of considerable importance which he wished to state. It was desirable that those benefices should be bestowed on those whose qualifications were proved by a certain period of service.—(Loud cheers.) It was therefore recommended that no person should receive the appointment of Dean, Archdeacon, or Canon, until he had been six years in Priest's orders.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to the other minor canonships, &c., it was recommended that they should be abolished ; and it was also recommended that all sinecure livings should be suppressed, and that the revenues arising out of them should be appropriated in other parishes to the cure of souls. The next great subject in the Bill was what had often been be fore their Lordships, and upon which it would be perfectly un necessary upon that occasion for him to trouble their Lordships with any general reasonings—he meant the subject of non-re sidence and pluralities. The same evils which had met them before met them on this occasion—the great poverty and penury of many of the benefices prevented the Com mittee (as they said) doing that which they would otherwise be inclined to do, namely, to recommend the immediate dis continuance of all pluralities ; but they were of opinion that means should be taken to diminish them as much as possible, and for that purpose they recommended the prin ciple of holding benefices and pluralities should in future be regulated with respect to distance and value. They were of opinion that no benefices should be held together that were at the distance of more than ten miles asunder ; and with respect to value that no benefice of a greater value than 5001. should be held in plurality with any other benefice, except in cases when the small value of a neighbouring benefice might make it expedient that they should be united. That was what the Commissioners had stated. With respect to non-residents, he (Lord M.) did not mean to depart from the principle of the law as it at present stood, bat they did propose to make further provisions for enforcing residences by diminishing the number of pluralities and non-residents. The Bill had been prepared by the Commissioners for carry ing into effect this purpose, and it would speedily be sub mitted to their Lordships' consideration. He had now stated the principal recommendations contained in the Report, and he begged leave to declare his entire concurrence in the whole of them. They were at once temperate and efficacious, at once reforming and Conservative, calculated to preserve the character and efficiency of the Church, while at the same time they would remove any stumbling blocks which might in any manner have rendered it the object of- attack, and, therefore, he re commended it to their Lordships as being calculated to in crease efficiency for those holy purposes • for which it had been established.—(Loud and continued cheering. ) The Archbishop of CANTERBURY expressed his great satisfaction at the subject having been introduced by his Majesty's Government, because it was really impossible that such a measure would be carried through the House without the full approbation and effective and hearty support of the Government.—( Hear, hear, hear.) H e believed that this measure would be very beneficial to the Church. He had long been aware that some strong and vigorous measures for the correction of abuses that had crept into the Church, and for the removal of those anomalies that had long interfered with its efficacy, were neces sar y. When Sir Robert Peel retired from office, the proceed ings of the Commission were for a while supended, but as soon as the Noble Viscount had taken office, he had called upon him (the Archbishop of Canterbury), and expressed his readiness to continue the Commission with only wish such changes in the official members of that Com mission as the change in the Administration rendered neces sary. The Noble Viscount stated that it was his desire that the Commission should proceed on the same views and principles as those on which it had been originally formed, and on which thsy bad proceeded, and had been favoured with constant attendance of the Ministers of the time. That Com mission had continued to receive the same assistance from his present Majesty's Ministers since the time the Commission had been received—the Noble Viscount and the members of the Government having been frequently present, and lent every as sistance; and he (the. Archbishop of Canterbury) was happy to be able to confirm the statement of the Noble Viscount as to the unanimity which prevailed ; and whenever any material difference took place, it had been settled not by any unwilling compromise or unjust concession, but from a fair consideration of the facts of the case, and the special reasons upon which the matter turned. That was really the state of the case, and he believed there never was a Commission appointed for so important a purpose, on which so much unanimity prevailed. He should freely confess, in justice to himself, that had he not believed this Commission to Le founded on Conser vative principles, he should never be a member of it.—(Hear, hear.) When he said Conservative principles, he meant that the Ecclesiastical Establishment should be maintained in all its integrity. He believed that a smaller number of bishopricks than at present existed would not be suffi cient to discharge the Episcopal functions. There were other reasons which 'induced him to undertake the duties of that Commission, particularly when he heard several persons, for whom he entertained a high respect, express an opinion op posed to the holding of commendams by the Bishops of smaller secs. He saw that there existed no other means than those proposed by the report for increasing the revenues of the smaller bishopricks, for, he feared, they could not ob tain any from the public.---( Cries. of " Hear, hear.") An appeal to them was out of the question, and there only remained the plan of taking from the larger sees some portion of those revenues which in latter times had greatly increased, and thus adding to the smaller ones. Another matter was the main tenance of the Cathedral. establishments, the - Deans, Chapters. With respect to the upholding of - Deans and Chapters, he was of opinion that they ought to ,be continued.—(Hear, hear.) The appointments were very useful to the Church, as rewards to clergymen of distinguished merit. He was still of opinion that they might be preserved and yet a large surplus obtained for the uses of parishes where, from the immense population contained in some of those in the Metropolis, and northern and midland counties, the Church of England was almost as a shadow. He felt quite certain that no one could say that the surplus could have been applied to a better object tban in filling up the great want felt in such parishes. Where the produce of the tithe was taken from the officiating Minister, and wastgiven to another who perhaps might not be properly called a • drone, for he might be officiating somewhere else. It seemed to him, that it carried its condemnation in its very name. One word as to the equalization of bishopricks--that question had never been under the consideration of the eommisssioners ; it was one of those wild projects which would at once have been scouted by them. Upon the: subject of residence he appre hended there would be very little difference of opinion.— ( Hear.) The very principle of the Chnrch ought to be, that a clergymam should certainly reside upon his benefice. It would, however, be totally impossible to carry the principle into effect in the present state of the Church, but they ought to come as near to the principle of having a clergyman ressd ing wherever there was a congregation of the Church of England The general feeling against pluralities was so great that he thought some restrictions were necessary ; and in a Bill which he introduced last year, he bad introduced a clause to do away with them in some degree. He wished to say a few words upon the objects which the Commissioners had in view when they made their Report. Their only object was to advance the pure religion of the country through the Estab lished Church; He disclaimed any other motive than the good of the Church—they had looked to no temporary expediency, to fix wavering friends. His full persuasion was, that if the recommendation of the Commissioners was carried into ef fect, it would be greatly beneficial to the Church itself. By applying revenues that had hitherto been given to literary institutions to parochial revenues, t rinf h em e epeprn g reo r ip e vna a irs t ami e to it good would be effected.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He be lieved it would be found - that the clergy of the Church England were ra w yd e ie r n e f po n ri eo the eiannfde educationr e o a r m to i n any goi t hH o o t e h s eehrlovcphleoads were s oe o °ol wouldhEe r n g c themselves for the sacred duty of the Ministry. There was another point which had been the occasion of great scandal to religion—that was the unworthy conduct of some Members of the establishment. Hitherto; these powers vest e d i n the Church to punish those who transgressed its rules was very insufficient, and he trusted some arrangement would b e ma d e although the Report did not allude to them, to prevent these scandals. To those who might appear dissatified with these arrangements and reductions, he would only say, let them look at the state of the Church, and see if its interests would not be promoted, and much public good effected by the re commendations of this Commission.—(Hear, hear.) The Report was then ordered to be printed. SPANISH AFFAIRS. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY asked if any an swer was obtained to the letter addressed to the Spanish Go vernment, respecting the twenty-seven prisoners taken by them. Lord MELBOURNE said of course if there was any an swer, it would be laid before the House. The Marquis of LONDONDERY said he would bring the subject before the House on Monday. After the presentation of some petitions, the House ad journed to Friday. Lord MELBOURNE had it in command from his Ma jesty, to lay before their Lordships the Second Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Established Church in England and Wales, with re gard to its claims, its duties, and its revenues. In perform ing that duty it. gave him great pleasure to state to their Lordships, that that report had been unanimously agreed to, that it Are the signature of all the Commissioners, and that although there might have been upon such a subject some differences of opinion, there was no-material difference or discrepancy among the Commissioners upon that subject. It perhaps might be necessary, considering the magnitude of this subject—its great importance, and the great interest it natu rally excites—it might not be inconvenient to point out the parti- cular recommendations which the report made to their Lord ships. In doing so, he should be probably exceedingly imperfect; but he had the satisfaction of speaking in the pre sence of those who were much more intimately acquainted with the subject, and who would be able to correct any error or supply any deficiency discovered in the short sketch he was about to make to them. Their Lordships were aware this was the second Report presented to them on this subject—that the first was the Report of Commissioners who had been appointed under the late Administration, and they had divided the subject into the three branches of territory, revenue, and patronage. Ecclesiastical patronage was a most delicate subject. It was one of much intricacy, and it was distinctly reserved for fur ther consideration. The last report recommended that there should be such a new division of the dioceses of England and Wales as they thought would put an end to the inequality which at present prevailed. In some of the dioceses the duties were so extensive as to be out of human power to perform; while in others there were not duties enough. In the former Report they had recommended that the dioceses of Bristol and Llandaff should be consolidated. They had many objections urged against that plan, and as they appeared to them to be weighty, they had altered the plan, and now recommended that Bristol and its suburbs should be added to the diocese of Bath aad Wells, while the remainder of the diocese should be/added to thei bishopric of Gloucester.—( Hear.) This arrangement would make some alteration necessary in the dis- tribuilon of the districts of Glamorgan and Brecon. The Report also recommended that, as soon as it could be found quite convenient, the diocese of Sodor and Man should be joined to that of Carlisle.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It further went on to say that there should, be a reduction made from the revenues of the larger and more opulent sees, for the purpose of increasing the revenues of those who were less amply provided for.—( Hear, hear.) They did not recommend that there should be a perfect equality in all dioceses ; in his opinion a perfect equality would be most contrary to the best interests of the Church, would be contrary to our form of government, and to the state of society in which we were now placed. —( Hear.) He thought there should be no income which should be open to a charge of being grossly ample ; while, on the other hand, there should be none which would not sufficiently provide for its holder. The present estimated value of the See of Canterbury was seventeen thousand pounds ; they proposed that it should now'be fixed at fifteen thousand pounds annually.—( Ipar.) The see of London was now This would give a fund of 25,5001., which, together with the sum of 2,300/. taken from the bishopric of Ely, would leave a total of 30,b00i. to be divided [among the other bishoprics, giving an income to them varying from 4,000/. to 5,000/. per annum. The sums apportioned to the different Bishoprics had not yet been determined. With respect to the Bishoprics of Bath and Wells, Norwich and Salisbury, no alteration was proposed. Their Lordships would see that the greatest amount had been taken from the Bishopric of Durham ; and the relson of that was, the recommendation of the Commis sioners that the temporal and secular jurisdiction hitherto vested in the Bishopric of Durham should be here after separated from the ecclesiastical functions. When these temporal and secular functions were taken away, there would, naturally, be taken away a great portion of the expense hitherto attending that Bishopric, such for instance as the. reception of the Judges, and so on. It was also intended that in future the Bishop should have nothing further to do with Durham Castle,. that his only resi dence should be Bishop Auckland, and the Castle was to be appropriated to the use of the University that had lately been established in that part of the country. The same recom mendation with respect to the separation of the civil and religious duties had also been made with respect to the Archbishopric of York, and the Bishopric of Ely, when that arrangement n ould be carried into effect.--( Hear.) The next important subject to which the attention of the Go vernment had been directed by the terms of the Commission, was the state of the Collegiate and Cathedral Churches in England and Wales, and looking to those great Lstitu tions, it was natural for his Majesty's Government to advert to that which their Lordships would be well acquainted with, viz., the extremely reduced state of a great number of the benefices of the country. Such a reduced state had great effect upon the character of the Clorgy and the interests they would take in religion. The situation they ought to hold was sunk materially, and they were ex posed to temptations which they otherwise would not be. The Report of the Commissioners further stated, that in order to give increased efficiency to the establishment, it was indis pensable to improve the condition of many benefices, where the population was of a very considerable amount, and to make adequate provision for the religious instruction of an increasing population. The Report entered into details to show the state of such benefices, but it was unnecessary for him to repeat them. The report went on to state that there were benefices in the Church of two kinds—some old and some new.—( Hear.) Those they called " old" which existed before the time of Henry VIII.. ; and those new, which arose about the time of the Reformation, and under the reign of that monarch.—(Hear.) In the old there were minor canons, who had no duties to perform, except occasionally preaching a sermon or two upon visitations. These preferments were not resident, and it was recom mended to suppress them altogether—of course upon the determination of present interests--that the proceeds of them should be paid into the fund mentioned, and applied to the purposes be had already stated. It was proposed to abo lish them, with the exception of some cases in which they might be preserved merely as titles of dignity, and as a means of rewarding distinguished merit in the Church. With respect to these'churches both old and new, it was recommended that hereafter for the service of ca thedrals there should be in each one dean and four canons .—one of the. latter to be attached to the arehdeaconry of the diocese, for the purpose of giving employment to those officers, whose duties were most useful, most necessary, and most extensive, and who had hitherto been left with very in adequate remuneration. It was recommended that the Chapters in the new churches should consist of a Dean and four Canons which was the number at present existing in the Cathedral of A very fine specimen of the Crested Grebe, was shot on the Derwent Lake (March 1), by Mr. Atkinson, of Keswick, after a most arduous chase for nearly four hours (du ring which time it never attempted to fly), and affording a so litary instance of the crested grebe ever having been known to visit this neighbourhood. Specimens of this bird are not easily procured, as the rapidity with which they dive renders the shooting of them extremely difficult. Nearly one-third of the small town of Maligny, in the Yonne, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 25th ult., audit is said that no fewer than sixty-three persons lost their lives. It has not been ascertained whether the disaster was occasionedby accident or malevolence. TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 185(. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Tories, by universal admission, cut a most wretched figure in the debate of Monday and Tuesday. There was not even a decently clever speech made by any one of their number. When they had allowed that the Irish Corporations, as they now exist, were so corrupt that a change became absolutely necessary, they deprived themselves of all ground of opposition to the Ministerial measure. The blustering of Sir James Graham about " unconditional surrender," and the lawless spirit of Catholic dominion" would have ' been intelligible if the-Right Hon. Baronet had boldly come to the conclusion that Catholics ought not to be placed on a footing of equality with Protestants ; and that if the)/ should refuse to submit to be slaves, the resources of England and Scotland must be ex pended in attempting a second conquest of Ireland, to be attended with fresh confiscations of. Catholic pro perty, and revival of tae penal laws. While alluding to this strange speech of the Right Hon. ex-Radical, we must entreat the forgiveness of our readers for a reference, in a leader of yesterday, to the Orange Portfolio, No. 8, for a proof of the estima tion in which he was formerly held by his pre sent allies. This Portfolio, No. 8, was stated to be in another part of the paper ; but owing to an acci dent it did not appear yesterday, but it will be found in our columns of this day. The only intelligible ground assigned by the Right Hon. Baronet, by Lord Stanley, and Sir Robert Peel, and the whole fry of Tories, for refusing to the inhabitants of the towns of Ireland the same Corporate Reform which had been conceded, first to Scotland and next to England, was that the majority of the Irish are Roman Catholics. A great deal, indeed, of laborious effort was displayed in endeavouring to prove the proposition, which no one ever disputed, that the situation of Ireland was not in every respect the same as that of England, as if it were necessary in legislating for a country to show that the circumstances of the people of every part of it are exactly the same. The Scotch Highlanders and the Welsh do not in every particular resemble the Cock neys ; but because the Highlanders have not yet attained the conviction that breeches are better than kilts, is that a good reason why the good people of Inverness ought to be deprived of the benefit of local administration ? It is an un- "1.. a v • disputed axiom in politics, that Administrations under 1 which the people are suffered to elect and to co ntrol those who have the management of their local affairs, are of the utmost advantage to a nation, and one of the firmest foundations of liberty. There can be no greater evil in any country than an undue extension of cen tralization, which opens a door to all manner of abuses ; but, in the case of a union of three kingdoms, the be stowing local administrations on two of them, and with holding them from the third, is either an assumption that the latter is in a state of subjection to the former, or that what is generally beneficial would, from pecu liar circumstances, be mischievous when applied to the third kingdom. The Tories durst not maintain that the people of Ireland ought- to be the slaves of the English and Scotch, and they utterly failed in showing that there were any circumstances in the condition of Ireland which would . prevent that which would be beneficial in the other countries from being beneficial in the sister kingdom. Justice having, by the confession of the Tories themselves, been poisoned at its source, the Irish have often been driven to combinations in self-defence; but because oppression has produced in Ireland the effects which it every Where produces, is that a reason for withholding from its inhabitants a healing measure ? Because a man may have suffered from an insufficient diet, is that a reason for refusing to allow him to re cruit his forces by a more generous diet ? But the To ries, in the eloquent language of Mr. O'Connell, not only suffered the nuisances of a corrupt administration of justice to exist undisturbed, but wished them to be come still more offensive— If Municipal Corporations were in themselves of a mischievous tendency—if men became worse by being suffered to have the manage ment and control of their own affairs—tben there might be some reason for forcing . an _offensive des potism on the Irish. But of all means for improving the character of a people, none, by universal admis sion, arc so efficacious as the allowing them to partici pate in local administrations. In short, the Tories are a day too late. When the claims of the Catholics were conceded in 1829, the Legislature threw down all bar riers between them and the rest of their fellow-citizens. A Protestant has no right to any privilege or fran chise to which the Catholic has not an equal right. It is the knowledge of this which has given so evasive and furtive a character to all the speeches of the Tories. They durst not say. " The Irish are Catholics—therefore let us oppress them but they could assign no better reason. The cause of Irish Corporation Reform is gained. We do not allude merely to the majority in the Commons of 64. We allude to the utter inability of the Tories to assign any reasons which the Peers, however desirous of withholding the measure, could, in the face of the country, avail themselves of as a justification of such a course. As to the argument derived from the supposed disaffection of the Catholics, we. have a short but satis factory answer to it. The Catholics are strong solely from the justice of their cause. Be they seven or nine millionS, the people of England and Scotland, if forced to the arbitrement of the sword by the unjust preten sions of the Catholics, would not hesitate a moment as to the course they should take. When a limb is in such a state that it cannot be healed, a man submits to amputation. But no sane man thinks of cutting off a limb without necessity, merely to show that he can do so. To deny justice to the Irish on the ground that if we are just they might abuse their power—to fill them with discontent and disaffection—to fill them with heart burnings and animosities—to strive to goad them to insurrection, because if they should lose their patience, we might be able to coerce them—is the most incon ceivable of all weaknesses. The process of coercing . the Irish may be necessary, but it must always be rui nous to ourselves, and it ought not to be thought of till the last extremity.- Let us give to the Irish what all liberal men, whether Protestants or Catholics think they are entitled to receive ; and if the effect do not correspond to our anticipations, we shall then, strong in our cause, strong in the union of all good men, em brace the course which ought always to be reserved for the last extremity. We can afford to be just because we are strong ; but we are only strong because we are just. Injustice towards the Irish would deprive us of what would nerve our arm in a good and holy cause. Let us hear no more, then, of denying equality of rights to the Catholics, because Catholics are not to be trusted.—Morning Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A 'young man named White was brought up, charged with forgeries upon the banking-house of Messrs. Currie and Co. Mr. Alexander Tradgtey, clerk at Currie's, stated that in July last Mr. William Osbaldeston, late of Fenchurch street, London, had a cash account with his employers. On the 14th of July witness paid a draft, dated London, 14th July, 1835, signed William Osbaldeston, and directed to Messrs. Currie and Co., for the payment of 2121. to " stamp duty," or bearer, to a person who, be entertained no doubt, was in the employment of Mr. Osbaldeston. The bank-notes in which he paid the draft were five 201. notes, numbered from 7,883 to 7,887, and dated June 27, 1835, and eleven' 101. notes, numbered from 16,477 to 16,487, and dated May 23, 1835 ; and 21. in cash. Witness did not know whether the prisoner was the person who pre sented the draft, but he was convinced that he knew the person who presented it to him to be in Mr. Osbaldes ton's employment. Mr. Wontner, for the prisoner, requested that his client might be remanded for fourteen days. Mr. Bush, the solicitor to 4 the committee of bankers for protection against forgeries and frauds, consented that the prisoner should be remanded till the 18th instant. --Re manded accordingly. BOW-STREET. Mr. James Barnes, an elderly respectable man, who holds the place of Second President to the Foreign Post office, in which department he has served twenty-six plats, and was in the receipt of 6001. a year salary, was examined on several charges of stealing and embezzling moneys at the office in St. Martin's-le-Grand. He made no defence to the charge at present, and was remanded till Tuesday. He is most respectably connected, and the detection that has taken place has excited the utmost astonishment throughout the establishment. • E'RICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON,TUESDAY, MARCH 3. Number Dividend Price of . per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share ~760 64 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham....A - ; :.:age 97t. 18s. sh. 169 1,482 61. Ashby.cle-le-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke 1,005 5/. Brecknock and A bergav enny 150. sh. AO 4,004115 h, 121. 10s. Birmingham,:l-16th share l7l. 10s. 1291 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junet....loo/. sh. all pd • 30f 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....lOU sh. all pd 6! 400 U. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 102 500 42/. Coventry 1001. sh. 810 4,516 Croydon Average 311.25. 103. sh. 21 2,00041 3/. lOs. Dudley lOOl. sh. 78 600 - 61. Derby '6O/. sh. 120 20,000 3,5751 Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 85 231 43'. Erewash 1 001. sh. 400 1,297 .24/. Forth and Clyde Average 44.4)1.715. sh. 590 1,500 12/. Grand Junction . .............. ..._ _,... 01 , 1. sh. 226 1',8491 Grand Union 1001. sh. 25 1,511 Grand Surrey 100!. sh. 10,000!. 4!. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 3,006 Grand Western 600 13/. 12s. gd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 280 1,960 Gloucester and Berkley lON. sh. 15 749 Mt. Grantham 1501. sh. 202 6,230 11, l 0 Huddersfield Average 57/. Os. 63. sh. 30 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,228 U. Kennet and Avon, Average 391.85. 10d. sh. 2 ' 2,8972 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 510 515 121. Leicester 1101. sh. 146 907 4/. Leicester and Northampton... Aver. 83/. 10s. 70 550 5/. per cent. Liskeard and Looe Union 25/. sh. all pd. 2,401) 0/, Monmouthshire lOO/. sh. ' 101 251) 91. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 204 • 500 251. Mersey and Orwell lOO/. sh. 571 3,000 Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 51 247 151. Neath ~.100/. sh 301 100 1,786 321. Oxford lOOl. sh. 60 52 . 2 2/. Oakham 130/. sh. 3 2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 78/. sh. 10 21,410 I4s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. ed. sh. ; 5.669 5/. per cent. Rochdale Average 55!. sh. 11 500 8/. Shropshire rl5/. sh. 14 800 10/. - Somerset Coal 1501. sh. It 45,000/. 61 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. IN. sh. 1 700 50/. Staffbrd and Worcester l4O/. sh. 61 500 111. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 2 2 300 EV. Stourbridge 3,647 1/. 10s. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791.95. fld. sh. 533 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 2 3,762 1/. Severn and Wye and Railway -Av 35/. sh. 2,601 sh. 621. 105. Trent and Mersey, i share 100/. sh. 6 8,149 ... ...... Thames and ISledway... Aver. 12/. ss. Bd. sh. 1,0005 b./ Ist Warwick and BirminghamlOW. sh. 2 1,000,15h.S 9'lo P , .‘„ Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 2 6,000 3/. lOs Worcester and Birmingham...Av.7B/. Ss. sh. 5,000 255. Wilts and Berke .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 800 6/, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 126 Wisbeach -105/. sh. 905 1/. Wey. awl Arun llO/. sh. DOCKS. 2 ' 6008( 1 3 c. Commercial 100/. sh. 1,06515 h P' 198,66721. 4 per cent. East India Stock 3,235,3101/. 50s. p.tt. London Stock Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 5/, per ct. West India 2.20.1 3/. Os. 441. Bristol Average 147/. 19s. sh. 08,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 3 p .r cent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 4.t per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Shoreham Harbour .... .... Deptford Pier 0 0/. sh. 31. pd BRIDGES. 1,600 'l. Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 7,931 Southwark, Old Av. C 3/. 2s. Bd. sh. 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 74 per cent. 5O/. sh. 5,000 5,000 .11. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6Ol. pd 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,818 17s. Vauxhall Average 491. Os. Od. sh. ASSURANCE COMPAN:ES. 9,000 31 lOs Albion 500 /. sh. 50 /. p d 5°,000 E 5 perc sesnt.] Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10 /. pd d . 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine • 100/. sh. 5/. pd 24.000 0 1 per sh. Atlas 50/ sh. 5/. pd 1,200 ish. 41. Birmingham Fire 250/. sh. 55/. pd 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 12,1)00 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/, sh. 5/. pd 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medical,&c. Life, ICOL sh. 121108 pd 4,000 2/ 105 County 1001. sh. 101. pd 10,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 0 ,-, A c 5 an p d 30/ er cent./ Economic Life • 10001. sh. 250/. pd -"" / bs. S 2,271 51/. per cent. European Life 0 0/. sh. all pd 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 204 sh. 2/. pd 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 20,000 I!. Guardian 400/. sh. 20/. pd 40,000 ') Hope Crire 5 p ct. t i • f 8 t 3 H „i e pc . 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 2.500 106 i F 5 116 871 104 1011 14 24 201 1/.125. 157 ~ife 8 p,. 2,400 -5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001 sh. 50/. pd 120 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 9 3 ' 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine, 1/. sh. 5/. pd 153 3/ 105 Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 Si. Ditto Life 29 10,1`00 I6s. Law Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 28 3,900 31 000 ... 30,090 11. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ 7s 64 250,003 Is. 6d. Protector Fite 9 0/. sh. 2/. pd 1/17 , 04 2,500 1/. Provident Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 194 100,00)) ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 21. pd 63 689,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 1974 Sim 2lO 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. pd I_l 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life .1 pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 49/. pd 0 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. sh. 10/. NI 19 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... 5O/. sh. Si. pd 14 18,000 '...? per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 151. pd 254 3,000 Lancaster 100/. sh. 20/. pd 30 25, 0 00 6 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 17 30,000 73 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/. sh. 101 pd 22 Discount 21,000 6 percent. Manchester 100/. sh. 20/ pd 351 20,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 434 20,. 10 National Bank of Ireland 5 0 /. sh. 10/. pd 14 19,000 National Provincial Eng. -100/. sh. 25/. pd 26 10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 5/. pd II 6,000 ITarrinshire 501 sh 5/. pd 8 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 501 I/ 12s. Bath 2Ol. sh. 1 0 1. pd 25 5,000 RI. per cent_ British 4O/. sh. WI. pd 21: 5 , percent 3 • 5,1100 {*„.;, 8 ,. „ .3 Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 19 pd 22 914 5/ 104 Birmingham 5O/. sh. 105 4,250 2103 Bristol 2o'. sh. 411 1,500 Brighton 2O/. sh. 12 750 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd H 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd If 4,000 31.. Continental Consolidated lOOl. 514/. pd 9.! 1,000 10/. City of London lOO/. sh, all pd 1, 0 00 (3!. Ditto, New 4,000 41. I , !s. Equitable .... 404 pd 3 European 5/. pd 10,t00 5/. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 4' 81)0 5/ per cent. Isle of Monet 951 sh. '2O/. pd 2 2,350 61. per cent. , ndenendent lO/ sh all pd ' 5 ,3 01 sh. 20/. pd 2 1,5 0 0 74 per cent. Leeds 50/ sh, 39/. pd 2 0,0 0 0 3/. per cent. Phoenix 1,001) 41. per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. 00/, pd C 4; 11 113 South Metropo l itan s^/. sh. 131. pd 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 451. pd P 210 51. per cent. Warwick 51 1 1. sh. r, 4110 11 58 Wakefield 25/. sh, '2 2 , 5 0:1: ss sh.hh .. 2 5 1 1 5 0 8 01 1 / i .. . spiPil pd I , ' . 12,0r0 3/. Westmins t e r Chartered 600) 12 Ditto , New $l,O Yar mou th WATER WDRKS. 4,000 Birminghani 1,133 5 /. East London lOO/. sh. P 4,500 2/ lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 44. sh. 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. :149 10/. Liverpool Bootle 0 201. sh. 3 1,500 2/ 108 New River London Bridge W a t er A nnuities . 6,183 1/. Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. on n ex ....Average 63/. 12 s. 94 . s h . • 1001. sh. I, r ef) 4 per curt. .‘vneitslit Middlesex 1,360 11 lis YorkIRON 11,ilding Co. WLesseeAYS. Prop 1001. sh. RAIL Bristol and Exeter ot 660 Bolton and Leigh lOO/. sli. 2.000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/. pd 2,500 193. Forest of Dean 5O/. pd 30,003 30 ";31 Grand Western 1004 sh. 10/. pd 2,0 0 0 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd 2,100 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 4/. pd 2,101) Leeds and Selby 1,509 Leicester and Swanning,ton ....50/. sh all pd 5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo/. sh. low. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd Loughborough -- - -Average 142/, 17s. sh. London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 5/ pd Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -204 sh. 1/. pd Ditto ditto (Rennie) London and Blackwall 50/ sh. Si.pd Londos and Dover 50/. sh. 11. pd London and Gravesend -20/ sh 1/. pd London and Greenwich . 2O/..5. 20/. pd London and Birmingham -100/. eh. 50/. pd London and Southampton ....`Ol. sh. lot pd London and Croydon 2/. pd Northern and Eastern IOW. sh. North Midland lOO/. sh. 5/. pd Preston and Wigan 3O/. pd Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 3/. pd Stockton and Darlington lOOl. sh. Durha.n Junction 100/. sh. 10/. pd MINES. Albion Copper 51. sh. 31. pd Allen 151. sh. 10/. lOs pd Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 15/. pd Bolanos • 150/. sh all pd Prazihan Imp. iss. 5/. pm. 15/. sh. 20/ pd Macaubas & Cocaes United....2sl. 5h.22/. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 741. pd Cata Branca 9/ pd 2,020 70 1-111. 111,(106 45,e00 12,000 30,000 2 0, 0 00 3 per cent, 25,000 ...... 20,(.00 20,000 ...... 12,500 2,500 2,600 1,000 61. per cent. 600 4,000 10,000 ... ..... 2,000 10,000 3/. t's. 6,0 0 Candonga 7;l. Pd 11. 1 Copiapo 2Ol. sh . 1211 pd 17 13olivar Copper Company, 901. sh. 204 pd 10 Ditto Scrip 4/, pd 41 British Iron 501. sh. 501. pd 3S British Copper Si. 5h.,314 pd 51 Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. English 12/. Ks. pd IS General Mining Association... 29/. sh. 154 pd 9 Mexican Company 100/. sh 5114 p Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 8/. pd 6 3 Real del Monte. Unregistered 2 4 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 135' United Mexican, iss. 2 pm..... 404 sh. all pd 3; Ditto Scrip 4l Ditto Subscription 2/. pd Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 41 Union Gold, iss. 21.55. pm.... 2214 sh. 414 pd West Cork 50/. sh. 40/. pd 37 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket.........75g5. sh. 29 London University 1001. sh. all pd 25 , Russell gigs. sh. 8 King' College 100/. pd 40 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000. 10s. Australian Agricultural-3001. sh. 26/4 pd 401 1,00 IL Auction Mart 50/. eh. 19 6,000 British American Land Company l3/. pd 111 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Comaany 100/. sh. 201. pd 36, 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lO3 15,000 14 per cent. General Steam Navigation ...154 sh. 13/. pd 257 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 14 London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 19 New Brunswick Land Company 221 pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1004 pd 1301 2 ,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 451. pd 76 .1,000 10,000 Van Diemer.'s Land 100/. sh. 17/. pd 18 V* 4 5i H 0 10,000 10,000 10,000 20,00'1 U. Ms. 0,000 8,500 2,850 3/. 20,000 0,155 2,000 11,500 30,000 5,C00 1,000 1,500 iOO LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, FEBRUARY 8, 1836„ BANKS. 1,500,001/. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland all. 6s Bd. sh. all pd 2041. e,ooo,oxt. 54 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1711. 500,0)(4 Bp. et. British Linen Company 100/.sh. al Ipd 240/. 3,000,000/. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 172/. 5,000,0004 sp. ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 1544 2,001,000/. 4/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd CO/. t,000,0(01. 4p. et. Western of Scotland ..- INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h 61, p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 4 261 (,500 sp. ct Hercules 100/. sh. 10/. pd 11/ Os 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lol. sh. all pd 71 Os 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 15/. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13/ Os 5,000 6p. et. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 14110 s 100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 101 lOs . . MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 Edin. and Glas Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto Allocated. 9B/. sh. all pd 65/. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 34/. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 450/ . 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh. 3q. pd 254 10.000 3 per cent. Edinburgh 81. Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 16/. pd oz . 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all p d 63 /. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas •151. sh. all pd 60/. 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 35/. 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and D alkeith Railwa y ...bo/ . sit rya 3 , 0 0 s} per ceat. Equl able Loan Company 251 611. 91. pd la 8,000 11,000 • __-_------- COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held to consider the report at the Revenue Committee in relation to the expenses of the mayoralty, the propriety of bringing up a Bill for the admission of aliens into the freedom of the city , ' n the propriety of felling the celebrated navigation barge, and carrying over the proceeds to the credit of the city funds. THE EXPENSES OF THE MAYORALTY. The notice of this subject having been placed at the/ ,op of the paper, in order that the Court might have a 1.111 opportunity of dismissing the merits of the report , s The LORD MAYOR called upon the name of Mr. William the Member for Coventry, who is the Chairman Of tbe Revenue Committee ; and, that Gentleman not having made his appearance, some members suggested the Po' priety of postponing the question until another day. The LORD MAYOR felt no small personal interest day , the matter himself, particularly as he found, from conversations which he had had with some persons of high rank, tbett there was an impression abroad that he was to ex p end the city's cash in his. year of the Mayoralty no l ess aWI than 27,000l.—(Hear, hear.) His Lordship then j. t r poned the question for two hours, and sent to Mr. "17 liams's house to inform him that the members were vvaiting" for him. The 'answer brought back to the Lord May or o t vat. th a t the Member for Coventry had not, in consequ ence the debate, gone to bed till five o'clock, and had ordered his servant not on any account to disturb him till two?' The Court proceeded to other business, and sa t till be tween 5 and 6 o'clock, but Mr. Williams did not attend du ring any part of the day. DUELLING. Mr. WIRE wished to postpone the motion of whicb, b : nhad given notice, for an Address to his Majesty, Pre him to dismiss from his service any person who should se or accept a challenge to fight a duel. Mr. EDWARD WILSON hoped that the notice would b e withdrawn. Mr. WIRE consented to withdraw the notice. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. Mr. WIRE requested to be allowed to bring on his met ° relative to the taxes on knowledge, which stood hig h on the paper of business, and which, when called upon by the Le Mayor, he was not .present to bring forward, having be e detained on a deputation. Mr. GIBBS objected to the proposition, on the ground that' the permission would be totally out of order, and productive of great inconvenience. The favour was ultimately refused. THE GRAND CITY SUMMER-EXCURSION BARGE. Mr. DRINKALD rose to submit a motion to the Court h , e b the subject of the Maria Wood, navigation barge, schia subject having formed an important item in the unprin'ef appendix of the report of the revenue committee wa s one " considerable interest to the Court, and the highly 0 1 :ti ter ; tamed auditory below the bar. He concluded by rov for its immediate sale. Mr. HALL seconded the motion. Mr. FLETCHER moved, as an amendment, that it be re: ferred to the revenue committee, to inquire into and repo; what diminution might be advantageously made in the e. pcnditure of the barge.—(Hear.) • ft. After speeches from Messrs. Edward Wilson, W'r e 'A, Taylor, Hall, C. Pearson, Stubbing, Pritchard, Pee ee ;be Alderman Johnson, Galloway, Figgins, and others , b e amendment was eventually carried by a majority of 13' the numbers being, for the amendment, 39 ; against it, 0. so was afterwards determined that the reference should he the finance committee. CHANCERY COURT-WEDNES LOCKE V. COLMAN. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that an application lia n d k been made to him a few days ago to vary the ininutes - the issue which he directed in this case. He had since minute s considered the matter, and referred to the proceeding! b6 the House of Lords in the case of Bush v. Locke , a n° was still of opinion that the form of the issue, as he of rected it, was the proper form of trying the question who was the customary heir of the lands in question, 11; cording to the custom of the manor of Taunton 1),r°, 40 , the time of the death of the settler, Robert Ale' in 1819. VICE-CHANCERY.-MONDAY• BROOKE V. TURNER. last- This case having occupied the Court on Saturday 01 - was resumed this morning. The case, it will be r ee t he lected, related to the will of a lady named Brook° , or question being whether coins, bank-notes, and other Ober rities for money, which were found in various parts c's o f house, passed under a bequest to her niece, Miss Jonet.aa all her property in and about the house. His Honourlea already declared his opinion that Miss Jones was entl t i n to such part of the property as consisted of coin ; al" t he giving judgment, be now observed it struck him tbas " fs , portion of the property which was not coin stood ip a vfel% differext situation from the coins. Th e wor d s the test st A - n a had used were " property in an d a b ou t my house. ""*". v the question was wheth er , w h a t ever one m i g ht e to g t l he by such words in common parlance in a Court of lawn' securities for money can be said to be propertyrorp ti cular place. His Honour concluded by declaring n's bu t nion that in point of law nothing passed to Miss Jones the coins and the Bank of England notes. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COVO . , erg ,„„r The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the r°°t) hereinafter named (the same having been filed in th• al area ppointed to be heard at the C o urt-house in Pr, t n at street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Friday, March 11, Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon. Warr J., West Smithfield, cattle-dealer. Smith, W., Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, out of employ eneral Myers, H., White-street, Cutler -street, Houndsditch, g dealer. -Reid, I'. H. M., Gloucester-place, Webber. street, Blackfriars road, shoe manufacturer. Lipscomb, J., Colchester, Essex, coach-proprietor. Hart, J. M., Gower-place, Euston-square attorney. Garratt, J., Pratt-street,Lambeth, grocer. ackf riat* Cruickshank, R.,;Thomas-street, Stamford-street , 131 artist. Roach, J., Southall. green, publican. Watts, W., Commercial-place, Kentish Town, Gardener . Dewsnop, W. C., King-street, Southwark, surveyor. Amos, J., Broad-street, Birmingham, corn-factor. As it may be of advantage to bring under view only what appears to be the safest, but the most irres gip ground upon which an acceleration of the mail be tweell cod don and Edinburgh, et vice versa, can be insisted on, bi t b e rt , paring the speed of the Edinburgh mail with that ef.f e pit allow me to show that, by taking the actual time from w4„;11# Office official time bills, inserted in the Almanack pUbliSf4 10 the Society of Useful Knowledge, that the London rent* Scotland are, beyond all manner of doubt, the slowest; t bert vious to the. improvements being made on the Irish noti'b ro ti" existed an embarrssing cross connexion at Birmingham , t n o, to Oxford. That unnatural junction Mr. Johnston broke Ito expedite the Irish coach, and so must Mr. Louis in . rel -PI the junction at Huntingdon to expedite the Scotch madBd conclusion, with this improvement, and if the new 0 01 Doncaster by Selby to York were adopted, taking t h l woo' Wooler to Edinburgh, there is no question but the mai' po rw be made to arrive in Edinbugh by eight or nine in the lo on% ing, and be despatched about five o'clock in the aft, e yo urit ° and let it be remembered that the fifth of April is die ' a o f th B period for Post-office improvements.—Correspond eet Courant. - . The most acute pains of Gout, Rheumati c ed u),l Rheumatism, Lumbago, Pains in the Head or Face, Ike-, relievvgjo d hours, and cured in a few days, by BLAIR'S' GOUT and Rio ego PILLS, proved by the testimony of many thousands of person - hi , ei cn iti walk of life. 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